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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

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606 points saikatsg | 3 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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afavour ◴[08 May 25 17:54 UTC] No.43929124[source]▶
> "Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-could-it-be-american-c...

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myvoiceismypass ◴[08 May 25 20:30 UTC] No.43930981[source]▶
American Christianity != American Catholicism
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taylodl ◴[08 May 25 20:40 UTC] No.43931087[source]▶
I know many American evangelicals who believe Catholics are not true Christians, and as such, when they're talking about Christians they are not including Catholics in that discussion.
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1. nashashmi ◴[08 May 25 20:41 UTC] No.43931101{3}[source]▶
What makes someone an evangelical? Protestant faith?
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2. michaelsbradley ◴[08 May 25 20:56 UTC] No.43931258[source]▶
More or less, though it's such an umbrella term at this point that a self-described "evangelical" may disclaim Protestant identity, not having an awareness of the historical link and intending to convey that they don't feel aligned with a Protestant denomination such as Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, etc. I've met many Evangelicals who said something along those lines when the subject came up in conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism

3. dragonwriter ◴[08 May 25 21:00 UTC] No.43931313[source]▶
Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism are distinct and relatively recent (18th and 19th century in origin) strands within Protestantism (both being particularly prominent in the US.) They aren't equivalent to Protestantism.